Am 13.01.2010 15:54, schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes:
This is not correct, neither the Unicode standard nor typographic
books know a ligature of dashes, see also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature
-- and -- are implemented in TeX as ligatures in the font, as are ?`,
!`, `` and ''.
I see now. Some fonts like the latin modern fonts translate "--" to the endash
glyph.
> A better UI *might* (and I do mean *might*) be to display it as a unicode
em-dash.
> But you do not want that character, since LaTeX does not know it can break
after,
> but not before, it.
This is an interesting issue. I wasn't aware of that problem. So the best is to leave it as it is.
The UserGuide already explains the different types of dashes and tells the user that there are two
different ways of inserting them (as "---" and as "—").
I have nevertheless still the opinion that the documentation files should use the Unicode glyphs
directly. The vast majority of the LyX users I know are coming from the WYSIWYG world and expect to
enter a single character to get a glyph.
regards Uwe
